Bomb Squad Blows Up a Student’s Homework
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From Times Wire Reports
A bomb squad in Perryopolis blew up a metal pipe that had a battery, wires, rope and an electrical switch, only to discover that it was an eighth-grade science project.
“An electromagnetic fishing pole,” Allegheny County Bomb Squad Sgt. Robert Clark said, holding what was left of the contraption.
A clerk found the device -- made from 3 feet of half-inch metal pipe -- near the greeting cards display at a drugstore.
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